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Sharla Gelfand
I am a statistician and an R and Shiny developer. My work focuses on developing tools that enable easier access to data (such as my R package, opendatatoronto) and replacing manual, repetitive work with reproducible and future-proof processes. I write about R at sharla.party and love contributing to open source.
Experience
R and Shiny Developer
Freelance
Toronto, ON
Jan. 2018 - Present
- Development of Shiny applications, R packages, and reproducible workflows and reports for academia and public sector.
Statistician
College of Nurses of Ontario
Toronto, ON
Jul. 2018 - Sep. 2019
- Developed reports and data tools on trends in Ontario nursing using Shiny and reproducible analytics reporting in R.
- Analyzed data from surveys, disciplinary actions, and internal processes to guide College operations and influence nursing regulation and bylaws in Ontario.
- Automated manual processes, reducing time to complete projects from months to days.
Data Analyst
Wattpad
Toronto, ON
Apr. 2017 - Jun. 2018
- Lead analytics on a new product, Tap by Wattpad, defining content and product success metrics and developing team analytics standards.
- Led A/B testing analysis and best practices, including Shiny app development to create a self-serve tool to enable stakeholders to analyze their own experiments.
- Developed analytical insights to drive a better understanding of how to acquire, retain, and convert users.
Product Analyst
Unbounce
Vancouver, BC
Nov. 2015 - Mar. 2017
- Defined data requirements for analyses to inform product roadmap and implementation, evaluate usage and adoption to best understand customers.
- Contributed to and maintained warehouse databases by collecting data from disparate sources and auditing data to ensure reliability and integrity.
Education
Msc, Statistics
Simon Fraser University
Vancouver, BC
2013 - 2015
Bsc, Statistics (minor in Economics)
University of Calgary
Calgary, AB
2009 - 2013
Talks
Don’t repeat yourself, talk to yourself! Repeated reporting in the R universe
RStudio Conference
San Francisco, CA
Jan. 2020
Cleaning Federal Election Data
University of Toronto iSchool Data Cleaning Brown Bag
Toronto, ON
Oct. 2019
Demo’ing the opendatatoronto R package
Greater Toronto Area R Users Group
Toronto, ON
Sep. 2019
Opinionated Strategies for Uncharted Territories: Strategies for working with new data
GTA R Users Group and R-Ladies Toronto
Toronto, ON
Mar. 2019
Community
R-Ladies Toronto
Co-founder and co-organizer
Toronto, ON
Mar. 2019 - Present
Greater Toronto Area R User Group
Co-organizer
Toronto, ON
Mar. 2019 - Present